Spanish style clams

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Spanish style clams with a Portuguese twist.

Ingredients:   

• 1/2 cup white wine
• Olive oil
• 2 tbsp hot pepper paste, Portuguese style
• 1 pinch cilantro
• Salt (if needed)
• 3 cloves of garlic or to taste
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 cup coarsely chopped onions
• 1 cup coarsely chopped bell peppers
• Half a cup of chouriço sliced (roughly half a chouriço)
• Clams (12)

STEPS:

1. Sauté the bay leaf and garlic in olive oil, as well as the onions and bell peppers.
2. Add the chouriço (Portuguese sausage) and sauté
3. Then add half a cup of white wine
4. Let it boil and keep stirring and then add the hot pepper paste and the cilantro
5. After letting it cook a minute or two add the clams
6. Be careful not to add salt without tasting because between the chouriço and the clams
   there may already be enough salt and the wine further enhances the salty favour.

As soon as the clams are ready you can serve